fourth trial

[airlockedmods]

[With the announcement and the evidence, the Champions are free to decide amongst themselves what order the groups leave in. Once that's done the process of teleporting is automatic and happens in the blink of an eye. Once second they're in the center of the cafeteria before a soft blue light surrounds them and then they're standing in the middle of a circle of podiums.

The room itself it the same shiny, chrome-covered atrocity as most of the rest of the ship save for the sections of floor that aren't the teleporter: those are thick clear glass that show nothing but empty space and stars beneath the Champions' feet. As for the podiums they're the same sort of garish chrome with a digital screen facing toward the center of the circle. More portraits and names in blaring red have been added this week. Karamatsu Matsuno, the Champion of Painful Secondhand Embarrassment That's So Cringe Inducing, Narcissistic, And Eye Blindingly Glittery It Makes You Wish He'd Go Away, Korra, the Champion Avatar, Yuri Plisetsky, the Champion Figure Skater and Max Olguin, the Champion Portrait Artist.

The Overseers are waiting when they all arrive, standing on a floating platform just high enough to be out of reach and back far enough toward a far wall to have a full view of the courtroom. Both are dressed well, Rox in a pressed grey dress jacket and skirt and Blaze in a black suit with the sleeves rolled up to expose his numerous tattoos. He's also sporting a black eye patch with a flaming snowflake embroidered on it over his left eye. Rox is smiling like that cat who ate the canary while Blaze is standing a little farther away than normal and looking uncomfortable.]

Welcome back, Champions! There are ten of you here but, if things go correctly, only nine of you will leave. I don't think I have to explain at this point what will happen if you choose wrong.

As usual there's no time limit but be sure to keep things interesting. [She folds her arms across her chest, looking down on the Champions with a grin.] Let the trial begin.

Comments

Pocket Check!

[in4apounding]

There's- um. Still some. Things. Missing. I hate to ask, but can everyone turn out their pockets? Just in case.

[Penny starts with herself, of course. Shovel-kun, the scissors, and the jar are already on her podium; her pockets themselves are clear, except for some stray glitter from a cannon refill.

[immaculacies]

[Manaka is wearing a dress from the benefactors. It does not appear to have any pockets!

...Except it totally does, they're just hidden. Manaka obligingly turns them inside out, revealing absolutely nothing.]

[le_mat]

[Akira does the same, including his bag- There's his notebook of course, some handsanitizer, Miki's ribbon, Max's copy of the full Lord of the Rings trilogy, one of Zombina's yaoi doujin.

A condom. You know, normal things.]

[andjerry]

[he's still wearing the homemade murdercoat replacement, which is essentially a giant shirt, and his space trouser pockets have only a second pair of rubber gloves]

[karappo]

[Karamatsu is wearing his blue hoodie along with Osomatsu's red tied around his waist, so he makes sure to turn out the pockets of all of them, including his jeans.

His pockets are clear, save for a little clay horse that he pulls from his hoodie pocket and keeps held in his hand.]

[playthedamncard]

[He turns his inside out, and there's nothing. (His cards are in his duel disk ever since he got that.)]

[dejabrew]

[Bolton is wearing the pink shirt and pants from the benefactors;

He put on pants for this, after finding a body in his boxer shorts that morning.

He has a red paisley hanky in his pocket, but other than that they're empty.]